Digital chapbooks of prose poems.

https://sites.google.com/site/whiteknucklepresscom/

White Knuckle Press is a new publisher of digital chapbooks. It is brought to you by some of the people behind Right Hand Pointing and Left Hand Waving.

White Knuckle seeks chapbook manuscripts of 10-12 prose poems for digital publication. Manuscripts should be submitted only during designated reading periods. (See schedule in box on this page, to the left.) Manuscripts submitted outside these periods will be deleted.

Manuscripts should be submitted as either a Word.doc or a rich text file (.rtf) attached to an e-mail that serves as your cover letter. Be sure to provide contact information.

Submit via our submishmash page at this link.

The manuscript should contain a title page, a table of contents, and a brief author's bio. It should also include a statement of artistic or writing philosophy. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, this will serve as the introduction. Each prose poem should be on its own separate page.

We would prefer prose poems that are previously unpublished. If any of the poems have been published, include an acknowledgment page with the manuscript.

Each prose poem should be no longer than 101 words (as in Life 101). It isn't necessary for the prose poems to form a series or sequence, but a common theme or style or structure would be a plus.

Our definition of prose poem leans more toward poetry than prose. We appreciate energy, daring, humor (particularly of the black or ironic kind), and freshness. We admire the prose poems of Rimbaud, Elke Erb, Russell Edson, and Charles Simic. But we don't want to read stuff here that can be read elsewhere.

These digital chaps are not part of Right Hand Pointing, but if you would like a rough idea of how we are prone to present digital chapbooks, see some samples at the RHP digital chapbook archive here. Also, we will announce digital chapbooks via the Right Hand Pointing/Left Hand Waving email list, which has 600 members as of September 2010.  Subscribe to it up in here.
 
Submit via our submishmash page at this link.